Come Monday...Adventures In Bookmarking

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about,  websites, movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time.  Be assured that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.”  This is subject to change, however.  In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while.  For rants promote change, and change can be good—right?  Therefore, since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).

When I first ventured forth into the great unknown of cyberspace, my vehicle of choice was Internet Explorer.  Well, it really wasn’t much of a choice.  For not only was cyberspace a complete mystery to me, how to get there was, as well.  That is, except for what came installed with Windows ME, which is what was installed on our first Dell in 2000.

While proceeding with great caution (utter terror, actually) each baby step along the way, I started to realize some of the wonders available, and one of them was the favorites option to Internet Explorer.  For instead of having to write down the URL’s to sites I wanted to see again, I could just add them to my favorites on the sidebar of the browser.  Later on, I “discovered” how to organize them into folders, and it was around then when I started compiling the list for the [Sites To See] series here.

Oh, but as they say, all good things must come to an end, and the beginning of this end came when I started having a lot of trouble opening some Entrecard sites through Internet Explorer 7 (I think).  So, I gathered up (so to speak) all of the courage that I could muster, and went about installing the Firefox browser.

I don’t remember which version of Firefox it was, but the difference between IE7 (I think) and Firefox was quite telling.  For all of the sites that wouldn’t load before, now came up with enough speed to startle me.

Soon after that, the Google toolbar for Firefox was brought to my attention, and I started bookmarking my Sites To See list instead of trying to add them to my IE favorites folders.  Oh yeah, life in cyberspace was becoming more and more comfortable.

No, we can’t be having too much of that—can we?  Therefore, after the 3,498^th “new and improved” version of Firefox was introduced, the makers of the Google toolbar for Firefox probably just gave up.  In any event, the announcement for made that it would no longer work on Firefox, and my stress level returned to a familiar feel.

A few days later, I was shown a variation of the Google toolbar for Firefox, and even though things had to be done a little differently, it would work.  Back to feeling pretty good again.

Nope, it didn’t last.  For when I went to publish last weeks edition of Sites To See, I discovered that links would no longer open in a different window through the new Google toolbar, which meant having to go back and forth with the browser back button.

Oh, but wait—there’s more!  For not only was I having to go back and forth between sites, when going back to the bookmark list, it was like visiting the page at start of the session, which meant changing the view from the sites being listing according to when they were bookmarked to alphabetical.

Yeah, none of this may sound like any big deal to most, but if you have ever had a very painful wound, you know that even a puff of wind can make it hurt worse.  Such is my life in general.

Why haven’t I just went back to using the IE favorites?  Well, the problem with some sites not loading still exists, and I am relegated to having to stay with IE8 because IE9 and 10 will not work with Windows Vista.

What about Google Chrome?  There is no Google toolbar for it, and I am yet to be shown how to transfer all of my old bookmarks to what Chrome has to offer, short of one at a time.

Opera and Apple Safari for Windows?  Refer to the situation with Chrome.

Okay, what about going back to using an older version of Firefox?  Well, Blogger/Blogspot is all about being on the cutting edge.  So, it will not support a browser version older than the one previous to the newest version, which means that I cannot publish anything through IE8, neither.  Yeah, they (and I am talking about all of them here) really might be out to get me.

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